Shooting of 13 at park puts Chicago back in the spotlight

If they start ratcheting the arms race in Chicago how long before they use IEDs and truck (stolen) bombs....

I guess handguns are acceptable but AKs are not...
"Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said at a news conference this morning. “Illegal guns, illegal guns, illegal guns drive violence....A military-grade weapon on the streets of Chicago is simply unacceptable.”

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A gunman with a military-grade assault rifle opened fire on a pickup basketball game in the Back of the Yards neighborhood late Thursday, injuring 13 people and dragging the city back into the international spotlight for its violent crime problem.

At least 16 bullets were fired into Cornell Square Park around 10:15 p.m. on Thursday, wounding a 3-year-old boy and a dozen other people. All are expected to survive, many with wounds to their arms and legs.

Shell casings found around the blood-soaked basketball courts were 7.62 mm rounds, which are traditionally used in AK-47 assault rifles and rarely found in gang attacks on Chicago’s South Side. Though gun violence has long plagued the city’s impoverished neighborhoods, offenders almost never use military-style weapons.

“It's a miracle there has been no fatality,” Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said at a news conference this morning. “Illegal guns, illegal guns, illegal guns drive violence....A military-grade weapon on the streets of Chicago is simply unacceptable.”

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two bangers shooting .... 16 Russian ammo casings were found .... yep, McCarthy automatically knows it was a AK47 ..... it could have been any number of weapons .... his bitching just goes along the commandments from his New God on Earth - Obammy .....

nothing will ever stop these shooting with the ghetto culture currently ... "No Snitch" ..... nobody is allowed to talk ..... just watch the news ..... there'll be a revenge shooting that will up the ante .... 3-5 dead and 20 wounded .... most likely this weekend

THe Trib had this to say -
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The park is in a gang-infested area, but not in a so-called impact zone flooded by officers to deter crime, police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said Friday. The nearest such zones are three blocks to the north and three blocks to the south, leaving Cornell Square as a no man's land protected only by occasional patrols.

Back of the Yards also is a no man's land when it comes to politics — it's a neighborhood shared by five aldermen. In Chicago's notoriously ward-centric political system, local issues often get addressed only when the alderman for the given area throws his weight behind it.

With so many aldermen sharing Back of the Yards, residents have to go from office to office trying to build consensus to address their concerns. That difficulty has carried over into crime fighting, said Cardenas, whose ward includes part of the neighborhood but not the park where the shooting occurred.

In 2011, community members rallied to try to persuade the City Council to create a single Back of the Yards ward, lamenting the fact they were having trouble getting things as simple as new curbs or repaved streets because none of their aldermen had enough constituents in the neighborhood to make it worthwhile to spend money there.

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund pushed a map the organization said would create a single ward covering much of the neighborhood, with a population about 86 percent Hispanic. (The neighborhood was about 59 percent Hispanic and 31 percent black in 2010, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.) That proposal failed to gain traction"

Since Chicago has a magazine capacity limit of 12, and the nearby town of Aurora has a limit of 15.

16 rounds fired in a spray and pray by a gangbanger without much if any target acquisition and trigger control looks a lot like he ran it dry. Probably means full mag and one in the pipe.

My money is on a SKS because you can buy a 15 round detachable mag off the shelf, and there are no factory 15 round mags for the AK, in 762. Of course you can make one, but why would a gangbanger bother?

Since Chicago has a magazine capacity limit of 12, and the nearby town of Aurora has a limit of 15.

16 rounds fired in a spray and pray by a gangbanger without much if any target acquisition and trigger control looks a lot like he ran it dry. Probably means full mag and one in the pipe.

My money is on a SKS because you can buy a 15 round detachable mag off the shelf, and there are no factory 15 round mags for the AK, in 762. Of course you can make one, but why would a gangbanger bother?

Just sayin.

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ditto .... CPD Chief McCarthy jumped on the AK ASSAULT RIFLE line almost immediately .... they found Russian ammo casings on the scene !!!!!! .... why? ..... because he's following the commandments passed down by his Lord & Master - The New God on Earth - Obammy .....